Comment on Acetone: A Thread

• ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Never understood why folks used acrylic bongs, like, how do you clean it? I kinda figured they were meant as disposable party bongs.

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  • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    90%+ rubbing alcohol and rock salt actually does a really good job, it just takes more elbow grease. Still won’t be as clean as literally fucking dissolving it, but that’s how I’d do it if I couldn’t use acetone.

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    • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I use 70% isopropyl and it dissolves everything except for a film around the inner chamber.

      Like a lump of tar just stops existing as a solid thing. Looks interesting after like 6 hours.

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      • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        70% is better for disinfectant, as the water helps carry the alcohol across the cell membrane.

        90+ works better to dissolve bong residues, and the coarse salt works as an abrasive

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  • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The gold standard for party bongs is shitpipes. Dunno about other places but for a Euro standard one, you need, bottom to top, 1x 100mm end cap, 1x 100mm sleeve (pipe to pipe coupling), 1x 100mm adapter to 40mm (the 100mm side should fit the sleeve), some length of 40mm pipe, some means to drill two holes, and two things not available at any random hardware store: a preferably metal what’s it called in English the thing that goes into the water and some tissue to tighten that metal thing in its hole, wrap in a taper and twist in. Try to get an adapter that’s angled, there’s also ones with a flat step instead of (quite aggressively) tapering the diameter.

    Completely and utterly indestructible at least when it comes to banging it up. In principle also fit to handle acetone those Euro standard pipes are polypropylene but I wouldn’t push it. Tons of water in there, definitely bottom-heavy, and very light when empty.

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    • iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Back in the day we had a 50mm wide 1m long pipe. The bowl was on one end and the ends of the pipe were open. We would put some snow in it, the one person pit the bowl and plugged the end of the pipe with their palm while another person ripped until the pipe was full. Then the dude would move their hand and the other person would clear the pipe. It was so smooth with the snow in it.

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    • fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Now that’s science.

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    • prex@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Bucket bong has entered the chat.

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    • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This person smokes

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  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I always thought the same, and I’ve been toking for about two decades. For pieces my friends and I always prefer glass. If using a glass piece though, it’s important to use vinegar once in a while (not just Isopropanol) to get rid of the chance of mould build up.

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    • Benjaben@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Let’s just all start smoking with acetone as our bong water! So many problems solved :)

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